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Beethoven's famous concerto for Violin and Orchestra has appeared in many editions over the last 150 years but none has truly done justice to the work. Now the acclaimed Beethoven scholar Jonathan Del Mar has achieved just that.Working with all known sources Del Mar finally presents us with Beethoven's intended solo Violin articulation dynamics and slurring; there are even note corrections in the solo part. Additions made by various editors and violin players over the years have been deleted. For the first time we also now have clarity regarding the meaning of Beethoven's Solo and Tutti markings.All in all a groundbreaking scholarly-critical edition;a must have for every violin player orchestra and music library.
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Though some themes of the D major Violin Concerto appear fragmentarily among Beethoven's earlier drafts, the score received its final shape - according to the autograph manuscript - in 1806 only. The first performance took place on December 23 of the same year in Vienna, the violon solo was played by Franz Clement. The concerto met with a rather cold reception: this critic of the Wiener Theaterzeitung admitted 'some beauty' in it but for the rest he found that '...the coherence often seems totally broken and the endless repetitions of some commonplace sections can easily become tedious.' The performance may have not been totally satisfying, it is certainly surprising that the setof parts published in 1808 is dedicated to Stephan von Breuning instead of Clement. It is not impossible that Beethoven lost faith in the value and future of his work, too, - his later attempt to change it into a piano concerto can be interpreted in this way.